ENVS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Good, Collective Action, Flint Water Crisis

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS201
• Professor: Alastair Neil Craik

Document Summary

Environmental problems: air/water pollution, contaminated land, habitat destruction/loss of biodiversity, over consumption of natural resources, ozone depletion, climate change. Climate change performance index: why do countries seem to regulate their environment better, value of environment to canadians different priorities. There is a high amount of social consensus that this is a problem we ought to address. Taking stock of environmental law: values doesn"t equal (=/) action, could suggest that talk is cheap; one thing to say you care, and another to do something about it (i. e. pay more for. Fundamental disjunction between our environmental value and our actions. gas). Why regulate the environment: economically better/ sustainable, rely on resources for economy, need to regulate resources to be more sustainable, health, visual/ aesthetic. Tragedy of the commons: finite resources, open access, economic tensions, trade offs, externalities, a cost that is imposed on someone other than the person getting the benefit, ex.